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  1. 19th April 2014, 05:24 PM #1
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    Portable external hardrives

    Hey guys

    I reaslise that I have a lot of photos on my laptop which appears to be dying a slow death....I say that because it does really random things like I can type a whole sentence before the words appear, and often more and more programs are starting to not respond or taking a really long time to even open..

    there is a number of others things too.....I think the whole laptop probably needs a good clear up and clear out to be honest but anyway thats a whole other story...


    So I'm looking to buy an external portable hard drive....to get a copy of my photos before this potential death of the laptop may occur

    min 500g, can anyone recommend a reasonably cheap but reliable one to use? the most I will be doing with it is transfering photographs however my photographs are a large file size so reasonable writing?/transfer speed would be good.

    Any ideas?

    I presume I cant use a 3.0 usb as my laptop is 4/5years old now so I only have the 2.0/2.2 or what ever it is USB
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  2. 19th April 2014, 06:44 PM #2
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    Lou, If you think it is dying then get your photos off sooner rather than later, and don't use it until you do.
    The longer you go the more chance of it corrupting the files on the drive, and when you copy them off they may be unreadable as images.

    When my last drive started to fail I copied of the pics and thought I had got away with it. Not so, many of them were corrupt and whilst explorer could see them they couldn't be opened. Most luckily were able to be restored from my last backup, and lucky I noticed before backing up a corrupt set (I tend to rewrite over every third or forth set).

    As for drives I have a 500gb Verbatim drive (3 yo) and a 1Tb western digital (abt 1yo) both have performed fine so far. Drive should be backwards compatible


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  3. 19th April 2014, 06:49 PM #3
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    what do you mean drive should be backwards compatible? compatible for what?

    As for the laptop unfortunately I need to use it, so will have to take the risk. a number of my photos are on photobucket but I want a copy that has not been compressed to jpeg to store.
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    That was reference to usb 3/usb 2 a usb 3 drive will work but be limited to usb 2 performance.

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    Thanks Martyn
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    Any USB drive you get will be speed limited by the USB2 rather than any differences between drives.

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    DONT rely on them....

    they are fine for day to day work but they fail.....

    I have 3 external HD backups of all my key data.

    one is the daily user (2TB toshiba USB only unit)
    one is the at home network backup drive (also cops the media player stuff) (a mybook live)
    the third is the once a month back up of the network (currently a seagate 2TB powered External USB drive that uses a full size hard drive and not one of those small laptop HDs'

    Every second year or so the daily user is taken to perth and then forgotten somewhere at dads place when it gets replaced with a new one for xmas.

    unlike my sister.. I haven't irrevocably lost anything off of External drives yet.
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    LaCie Porsche Design 1TB 2.5in Portable USB3.0

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    I'm sure they do fail but so will my laptop so I'm seeing it as some back up with potential for failure is better than no back up at all
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    that was my sisters logic too.....

    IMHO if you have a home network you are better off getting something along the lines of the mybook live that plugs into your network and you dont need to move it around very often.

    about 1/3 of the failed external drives I get to see are from the USB connector getting damaged.

    the rest are usually failed hard drive boards or head drivers.
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